...red on one's personal concept of God.

tantra Yoga: A way of showing the unseen consciousness in form through specific diagrams, and movements. One of the diagrams that is used to show the joining of the physical and spiritual bodies is two triangles superimposed upon one another. The downward-pointing triangle represents the physical body. The upward-pointing triangle represents the spiritual body of support, energy, and vastness.

Kashmir Shaivism: It is based in emotion rather than intellect. The practice of this yoga philosophy states that everything in the universe has both male and female qualities. In Kashmir Shaivism, these male and female principles form an equal partnership, so interdependent that they cannot be separated. The attraction between them produces the ultimate union of opposites, creating the immense complexity of the universe that we enjoy and celebrate.

Yoga is not a religion. It has no fixed set of beliefs. There...more

Karmic Yoga and the Necessary Mindset

...What is a life of service and how does it benefit anyone? That is the question that I have always asked. The answers that I received were that it gives you an opportunity to meet new people. It gives you a chance to expand your ideas about the world. It helps you grow as you gain new insights through new conversations and experiences.

Karmic Yoga connects you with the Divine through the works that you do with other human beings. This connection results in a cleansing of the soul and spirit, allowing you to move closer to a clarity that only comes through such work. It helps remove the karma of the society in which you find yourself, and makes you free by expanding your thinking capacities. This is all well and good. In theory it sounds great, but the truth is, it can do the opposite.

When you work with a lot of people you often dont see the face of God, you see some very obnoxious, ignorant, arrogant, angry people. Sometimes these people are so scared for their lives and their ability to survive that they are dangerous. Sometimes they lie, cheat,...more

The Westernization of Yoga or Why Stretching & Flexibility is Not Yoga

...lished is making you better able to carry out your gross impulses. This is what happened to Darth Vader. He practiced the exercises of a Jedi Knight and they only fed the Flaws in his character.

My Yoga teacher, Yogiraj Swami Bua, Maharaja of Hatha Yoga, sums this up when he says; The Lotus Pose will not take you to Heaven.

Another way of looking at this is: Yoga is union. How can one claim to practice union only a few hours a week? Do we get married for a few hours a week? (OK. I can hear all the humorous comments about marriage this will generate.) I think we can legitimately question the validity of using the term union to refer to a fleeting or very temporary State of Being.

By this, I do not mean we are not practicing Yoga unless we are in the State of union. I mean we must be trying to be in the State of union. Whether we succeed or not, is another question.

My purpose in writing this article is to try and stop Yoga from following in the foot steps of the many Ancient Traditions which have been reduced by the market place to nothing but a hollow shell of their true selves.

There is no money to be made in not giving people what they want. Therefore, I hope this article will inspire some to examine what they want and lead them to true Yoga.

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Use Yoga exercises To Effectively Treat Addictive Behaviour!

... trapping them. If that problem isn't addressed then it will be impossible to release that problem from their life, thus preventing them the freedom to move on.

Yoga postures are frequently used in varying detox programs to help people come off drugs and alcohol. Yoga assists them to recreate the balance in their life that they had somehow lost along the way. By helping people to look at their way of thinking, that they have conditioned themselves to accept. Yoga can help people with addictive personalities to take the necessary steps to enforce changes in ...more

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